Welcome!

The Bioecology, Self-Regulation and Learning (BSL) Lab’s interests are in clarifying the processes—mind, brain, and environment—through which children’s experiences with their parents, teachers, and peers shape their abilities to control their impulses, purposely maintain and shift their attention, and hold and manipulate information in mind. Broadly, this set of inter-related skills is referred to as “self-regulation.”

Advising expectations

Learn more about what to expect as a graduate student in the BSL Lab. Our Lab Director, Daniel Berry, Ph.D., outlines what you can expect from him as an advisor/mentor and provides an overview of his expectations of students in the child psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota.